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April 2013

I came to the United States for the first time in 1985 to participate in a convention of religious leaders. I took the opportunity to visit my uncle, who at that time was living somewhere in New York state.

My uncle took me for a ride and, while he was driving in a highway (I …

You never know how much garbage there is out there until it is your turn to go and pick it up. And you never know what you could find when you are picking up garbage. In this case, it was a broken cross and a discarded chewing gum under a blue metal container at a small square n…

For several decades now, I have been involved in multicultural activities and in intercultural communication. In fact, I work at a very diverse environment, interacting every day with people from different countries, ethnicities, languages, and religions. I thought I had overcom…

There are few challenges in life bigger than suddenly becoming homeless and unemployed, and not because of our fault. The situation could be even more desperate when the person is a young female immigrant still learning English and whose family lives literally at the other e…